![]() Most audience members take umbrage with the impracticality of it all. I’d make the case, though, that it works. At times, it’s aggravatingly contrived, an easy way to move narrative players around without much care. In fairness, it really doesn’t make a lick of sense. He can genuinely emulate Liev Schreiber’s Cotton Weary, David Arquette’s Dewey Riley, and yes, even Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott. These aren’t just feigned mimics, either. Rather than just Jackson’s voice, the third entry’s Ghostface is inexplicably capable of imitating other voices as well. Scream 3 takes it one step further, though. As such, Ghostface’s voice is as much a part of the franchise as Sidney, Dewey, and Gale (just look at the reaction to the MTV series). Barrymore’s live reaction to Ghostface’s threats is no small part of what makes the original’s opening feel so real. He was right outside, hidden in the shadows under a tent, whispering to her over a cell phone. In Scream’s seminal opening scene, Jackson is genuinely talking to Drew Barrymore’s Casey Becker on the phone. Related: ‘Scream (2022)’ Is Bloody, Funny, And One Hell Of A Good Time A staple of the series, Scream has regularly relied on Roger Jackson’s petrifying and raspy voice to instill terror in the audience. Additionally, there’s the glaring matter of central antagonist Ghostface’s voice changer. Not the least of which is literally blowing up a house in the Hollywood hills, the moment the franchise colloquially jumped the shark (or blew up the house). Yet, Scream 3 is frequently maligned for some pretty ludicrous narrative pivots. As a meta-exercise in the public consumption of death and the victims along the way, it’s a poignant and fitting end (at the time) to the saga of inimitable final girl Sidney Prescott. After the first two, more of the same wouldn’t have worked. In retrospect, it’s arguably the only way a third entry could have been done. What it lacks in narrative cohesion or genuine scares– at times, Scream 3 takes the comedy in horror-comedy a bit too far– it more than makes up for in genuine pathos and adroit social commentary. But since then it’s been recontextualized as an urgent, meta push against Hollywood exploitation in all its forms. Once the black sheep of the franchise, the entry radically misunderstood what a Scream movie should be. Scream 3 has undergone something of a reevaluation in the 22 years since its release.
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